Web Site Holds Cpu Hostage

[cali]

Some web sites just sitting on their home page with no other programs running keep the CPU pegged such that the system gets hot, the fans go to maximum, batteries are used up quickly, and the system becomes unresponsive for doing other things. The culprits seem to be certain thai web sites such as dailynews.co.th as an example. Closing the page, minimizing it, or switching to another web site and I can see in task manager the system returns to idle. Running Vista ultimate IE7. What causes this and is there anything that can be done?

[MrSnrang]

Some web sites just sitting on their home page with no other programs running keep the CPU pegged such that the system gets hot, the fans go to maximum, batteries are used up quickly, and the system becomes unresponsive for doing other things. The culprits seem to be certain thai web sites such as dailynews.co.th as an example. Closing the page, minimizing it, or switching to another web site and I can see in task manager the system returns to idle. Running Vista ultimate IE7. What causes this and is there anything that can be done?

[ianc66]

Well so it does trying Daily news online (BTW 'daily' and copyright 2007) with Firefox -- not unresponsive but 80% + cpu experimenting it think it the the clock they use updating continuously. What to do [email protected] <[email protected]> tell 'em.

[Simmo]

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